This measure would designate March 2024 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in California.
This measure would declare May 23, 2024, as GM1 Gangliosidosis Awareness Day in California.
Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and imposes restrictions or prohibitions on various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation. Existing civil law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, except so far as the latter has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon themselves. This bill would entitle a person who suffers injury that is proximately caused by the illegal purchase of a controlled substance through a social media platform, as defined, to recover specified statutory and actual damages if it is shown that the injury was occasioned, in whole or in part, by the want of ordinary care or skill in the management of the platform pursuant to the above-described civil law provision. The bill would also entitle a prevailing plaintiff to reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The bill would state that its provisions are severable. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
This measure would acknowledge the harms and atrocities committed by representatives of the State of California who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and the legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination. The measure would affirm the State of California's role in protecting the descendants of enslaved people as well as their civil, political, and socio-cultural rights.
This measure would proclaim March 2024 as American Red Cross Month and would dedicate it to all those who continue to advance the noble legacy of the organization's founder. The measure would encourage all Californians to reach out, support the organization's humanitarian mission, and join in their commitment to care for people in need.
This measure would proclaim March 4, 2024, to March 8, 2024, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week.
This measure would declare 2024 as the year to Coexist with Wildlife, California.
Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to, among other housing-related duties, insure certain housing loans to qualified buyers that meet certain requirements, including that the loan is secured by mortgages or deeds of trust, or the loan is wholly or partially insured or guaranteed by an agency or instrumentality of the United States, except as specified. This bill would authorize an eligible person to apply to an administrator for the guaranty of up to 50% of one or more qualified loans, as defined, in an aggregate amount that does not exceed an unspecified amount. The bill would define "eligible person" to mean an African American with a special consideration for an African American who is a descendant of persons enslaved in the United States. The bill would prohibit the administrator from guaranteeing a qualified loan if there are not sufficient moneys in the Reparations Fund, described below, to cover the cost of the guaranty. This bill would also entitle an eligible person to education or training, or a refresher or retraining course, at an approved educational or training institution, as defined, for no more than 4 years if the eligible person is in satisfactory standing according to the regularly prescribed standards and practices of the educational or training institution and would require the administrator to pay certain costs related to the education or training, including the cost of tuition and other standard fees for that eligible person. The bill would make these provisions operative only if there are sufficient moneys in the Reparations Fund, described below, to cover the costs of administering the provisions. This bill would create in the State Treasury the Reparations Fund and would continuously appropriate the fund for the purposes of the programs described above. The bill would require revenues, interest, and penalties, less refunds and reimbursement to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for reasonable administrative expenses, derived from a tax described below to be deposited into the fund. The bill would also authorize the fund to accept charitable donations, as specified. By creating a continuously appropriated fund and providing moneys for the fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state of, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The California Constitution prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from levying or collecting a sales or use tax on the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in the state of, food products for human consumption, except as provided by statute as of January 1, 1993. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2025, require a purchaser to pay a tax on the purchase for use in this state of gold bullion and gold coins, tangible property made in whole or in part from cotton, or tobacco products from a retailer at the rate of an unspecified percentage of the sales price of those items of tangible personal property. The bill would provide for the administration and collection of this tax pursuant to procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. By expanding the application of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also, beginning July 1, 2025, require a purchaser to pay a tax, imposed and administered in the same manner as the tax described above, on the purchase for use in this state of wine, olives, cane sugar, granulated sugar, rice, and coffee beans from a retailer at the rate of an unspecified percentage of the sales price of those items of tangible personal property. The bill would make the operation of this provision contingent upon an unspecified Assembly Constitutional Amendment of the 2023–24 Regular Session being approved by the voters and taking effect. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would make findings and declarations related to a gift of public funds.
This measure would proclaim February 22, 2024, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
